Any reading not of a vicious species must be a good substitute for the amusements too apt to fill up the leisure of the labouring classes.

The executive has no right, in any case, to decide the question, whether there is or is not cause for declaring war.

I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.

It is the duty of every man to render to the Creator such homage...Before any man can be considered as a member of Civil Society, he must be considered as a subject of the Governor of the Universe.

The most productive system of finance will always be the least burdensome.

On any other hypothesis, the delegation of judicial power would annul the authority delegating it; and the concurrence of this department with the others in usurped powers, might subvert forever, and beyond the possible reach of any rightful remedy, the very Constitution which all were instituted to preserve.

To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.